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Standard front

Armada Front build order · Supreme Isthmus

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant up immediately, units trickle to the coast and middle, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:00 as the eco transition.

#eco · 1700 distinct matches · 248 players · 74% of Armada Front games · team won 61% of 1994 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: T2 constructor by 7:43

  1. Open mex and wind, drop Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost immediately.
  2. Pump Blitz, Rocketeer and Pawn to the coast to stop leaks first.
  3. Add Centurion and Janus once first units are moving up.
  4. Form units into a line pushing toward middle as numbers grow.
  5. Upgrade to Advanced Metal Extractor as the economy transition kicks in.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1700 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.

  1. 1

    Up to the Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 2 mex, 1 winddone ~0:44, middle half 0:33–0:56

    Some games also: wind (48%) · Vehicle Plant (35%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex

    The example game in this phase · 30 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:53 · typical 0:47
    4. BlitzBlitzfor Air
    5. RoverScout
    6. BlitzBlitz
    7. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    8. JanusJanus
    9. WhistlerMissile truck
    10. Mex
    11. Wind
    12. StoutStout
    13. JanusJanus
    14. Wind
    15. Mex
    16. JanusJanus
    17. Wind
    18. Mex
    19. JanusJanus
    20. Con turret
    21. JanusJanus ×2
    22. RoverScout
    23. StoutStout ×2
    24. RoverScout
    25. JanusJanus ×2
    26. Mex
    27. BlitzBlitz ×12
    28. Mex
    29. BlitzBlitz ×5
    30. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:15 · typical 0:44
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer6 Rocketeer

    Some games also: Lazarus (49%) · tick (46%) · centurion (40%) · con vehicle (32%) · janus (32%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 6 wind

  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine14Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: rocketeer (45%) · energy storage (43%) · Lazarus (38%) · con bot (37%) · Radar Tower (36%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 24 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 128 steps
    1. BlitzBlitz ×13
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    4. Energy storage
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind
    11. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    12. Wind
    13. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    14. Wind
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. Con turret
    18. Wind ×3
    19. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    20. Wind ×4
    21. Energy storage
    22. Wind
    23. Con turret
    24. RoverScout ×2
    25. Wind
    26. Bot LabBot Labdone 9:16
    27. Mex
    28. RoverScout
    29. Energy storage
    30. RoverScout
    31. Metal storage
    32. Wind
    33. PawnPawn ×2
    34. Mex
    35. RoverScout
    36. PawnPawn
    37. RoverScout
    38. PawnPawn
    39. SentrySentry
    40. RoverScout
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Wind ×2
    43. PawnPawn
    44. SentrySentry
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:36
    46. Wind
    47. PawnPawn
    48. RoverScout
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    50. RoverScout
    51. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    52. Wind ×2
    53. RoverScout
    54. Wind ×2
    55. RoverScout
    56. Wind
    57. RoverScout
    58. Wind ×2
    59. RoverScout
    60. Wind
    61. RoverScout
    62. Wind
    63. Mex
    64. SentrySentry
    65. RoverScout
    66. Wind
    67. RoverScout
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. SentrySentry ×2
    70. Wind
    71. RoverScout
    72. Wind ×2
    73. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    74. Wind
    75. Converter
    76. Wind
    77. Con turret
    78. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    79. Wind
    80. Converter
    81. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    82. Converter
    83. Wind
    84. RoverScout
    85. Converter
    86. Wind
    87. RoverScout
    88. Converter
    89. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    90. RoverScout
    91. Wind
    92. RoverScout
    93. Twilight
    94. Wind
    95. RoverScout
    96. Wind
    97. HarpoonHarpoon
    98. RoverScout
    99. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    100. Converter
    101. RoverScout
    102. Wind
    103. RoverScout ×3
    104. Converter
    105. RoverScout
    106. HarpoonHarpoon
    107. RoverScout ×2
    108. Converter
    109. RoverScout ×2
    110. Converter
    111. RoverScout
    112. Con turret
    113. RoverScout
    114. Converter
    115. RoverScout
    116. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    117. Converter
    118. RoverScout
    119. Converter
    120. RoverScout
    121. Converter
    122. RoverScout
    123. Con turret
    124. RoverScout ×4
    125. Con turret ×2
    126. RoverScout
    127. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    128. RoverScout

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Reasonable1337's (33 OS, 15/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:17 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:24 · in 64% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

1994 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008402131
3:001618135108
4:002700522333
5:0038471128787
6:00503519281428
7:00625027202303
8:00753535463173
9:00897343304071
10:001054250114810
11:001237555405548
12:001452859986409
13:001685964707001
14:001921771867827
15:002184978708694
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Front play wins more often than Suicide front and produces more metal by 15:00 while losing less of it.

  • + Metal produced reaches 22627 by 15:00, well above Suicide front's 20142.
  • + Own metal lost is 8944 by 15:00, lower than enemy metal destroyed ratio of Suicide front.
  • − First unit lost already at 1:43, showing exposure despite the safer position.
  • − Blitz dominates army share at 25%, leaving fewer Centurion for anti-swarm.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Reasonable1337

32.7 OS · 15/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
172 metal received · 50918 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:44Middle 50%: 0:33–0:56 · n=1332
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:41–1:13 · n=1286
Advanced Metal Extractor9:00Middle 50%: 8:09–10:15 · n=1564

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